[Bug 1307265] Re: installation hangs if postgres is not listening on default port

2014-07-26 Thread Ubfan
The Postgresql 9.3 update to Ubuntu 14.04 improperly changed the default port from 5432 to 5433. Historically, port 5432 has been the default Postgresql port. Some update in 14.04 of Postgresql to 9.3.4-1 apparently decided to use 5433 as the default port. This change breaks things because

[Bug 1307265] Re: installation hangs if postgres is not listening on default port

2014-07-26 Thread Ubfan
** Also affects: postgresql (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to maas in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1307265 Title: installation hangs if postgres is not

[Bug 46520] Re: Grub installs to wrong drive's MBR in default install. No way to change in standard installer.

2009-01-18 Thread Ubfan
This problem is present in Intrepid and easy to duplicate with a laptop and a USB disk. Installating Ubuntu to a USB disk is likely to be a common scenario. Set the laptop boot order to be: USB/CDROM/harddisk. Boot the standared live Ubuntu CD-ROM, plug in the USB disk, and install to the

[Bug 46520] Re: Grub installs to wrong drive's MBR in default install. No way to change in standard installer.

2009-01-20 Thread Ubfan
The laptop is an HP Presario v3100 with an 80G Seagate ST98823as drive. Always thought it was IDE. From the interrupts, it looks like the harddisk is on the secondary slot, with the dvd/cdrom on the primary (or nothing since the number of primary interrupts is 0). No tools to actually open

[Bug 414996] Re: [karmic] grub re-writes boot sector on wrong drive on fresh install

2010-01-01 Thread Ubfan
After many successful 32 bit Karmic installs from a live usb stick to usb sticks and usb hard disks, I installed a 64bit Karmic from a CDROM (to a usb stick) and clicking on the Advanced button, noticed the difference in the use of (hd0) for the boot location instead of an actual device (e.g.

[Bug 495131] Re: update-manager cannot find space on /tmp ramdisk

2009-12-21 Thread Ubfan
The root of this problem is the inability of python's os.statvfs to handle ramfs file systems. A workaround is to use tmpfs instead, then everything works. ...DistUpgradeCache.py has the checkFreeSpace function which utilizes the os.statvfs. The purpose of using a ram disk here is to

[Bug 495131] [NEW] update-manager cannot find space on /tmp ramdisk

2009-12-10 Thread Ubfan
) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/ubfan/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=ubfan) df may indicate a /tmp space issue, but the working 64 bit output is the same. $ df -a Filesystem 1K-blocks Used

[Bug 495131] Re: update-manager cannot find space on /tmp ramdisk

2009-12-10 Thread Ubfan
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36664091/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36664092/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36664093/ProcStatus.txt --

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2009-12-10 Thread Ubfan
As of Karmic (9.10), grub's use of UUIDs fixed the problem of being unable to boot the other operating systems. The devices are still wrong, but will make no difference unless the install is to a portable device like a usb stick which should be able to boot windows on any PC. In that case, fix

[Bug 495131] Re: update-manager cannot find space on /tmp ramdisk

2009-12-12 Thread Ubfan
Further testing with a 64 bit Karmic system now shows this problem. With ramdisks mounted on /tmp and /var/cache/apt/archives (with a directory partial created), the no space message appeared for a 40M download for both the ...archives directory (possibly valid, but I thought the default was 64M),

[Bug 367766] Re: live USB disk not bootable

2009-06-07 Thread Ubfan
The System/Startup USB disk creator command in 32 bit Intrepid will successfully create an Intrepid live usb stick, but will fail when given the jaunty 32bit iso. The created usb stick will only have a syslinux 2 line text header and a boot: prompt. No splash, no menu choices, and nothing

[Bug 384633] [NEW] Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2009-06-07 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub-installer System: laptop hd has WinXP, usb disk has several Linux distros. Boot order is usb thumbdrive, usb hard disk, and laptop hard disk. Using a Jaunty live usb thumbdrive, install to an USB partition. Remove the usb thumbdrive and reboot.

[Bug 729045] Re: [needs-packaging] fltk-1.3.0

2012-02-04 Thread Ubfan
Ubuntu 11.10 does have some fltk13 packages now. The ...-dev package was fine, but the fltk13 package itself seems useless since it does not have the (four I needed) libfltk... libraries. The workaround is to add links to /usr/lib pointing to the necessary libraries in the tarball download. --

[Bug 816062] Re: When opening up FireFox 5 screen goes white

2011-09-30 Thread Ubfan
I sometimes see a white screen in firefox when running 11.04, but only with the Unity interface, not the classical. The whiteness is size dependent, it comes and goes as the screen is resized (showing the normal web page when not present). The resizing may be done with the corner resizer or by

[Bug 876734] Re: gnome-terminal scroll position indicator invisible when left scroll is selected

2011-10-17 Thread Ubfan
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876734 Title: gnome-terminal scroll position indicator invisible when left scroll is selected To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 876734] [NEW] gnome-terminal scroll position indicator invisible when left scroll is selected

2011-10-17 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: Under Unity and Unity-2D, selecting left scroll for a gnome-terminal scroll bar position results in the little red bar, indicating where the scroll elevator will appear , being invisible, making it difficult to find, since random clicks must be applied along the left window

[Bug 762203] Re: Computer is not turned off at shutdown

2011-09-18 Thread Ubfan
After upgrading to kernel 2.6.38-11-generic, shutdown now completes properly on my MSI 135 laptop running 11.04 off a 4G usb stick. An 8G stick with 10.10 will shutdown with a dirty filesystem 25% of the time. Never had problems with 10.10 on 4G sticks, so maybe the speed of the root media is

[Bug 706795] Re: [All releases] Suspend/Resume with rootfs on USB, causes filesystem corruptions and kernel panic on mount attempt, leaving system unbootable with data lost.

2011-09-20 Thread Ubfan
I started seeing disk checks at boot time 25% of the time on a new 8G USB Maverick installation, currently running kernel 2.6.35.30. I noticed that at shutdown, the usb light blinks right up to the fraction of a second that power is cut to the laptop, so I assumed that some fileysystem buffer had

[Bug 876734] Re: gnome-terminal scroll position indicator invisible when left scroll is selected

2012-04-02 Thread Ubfan
This bug also affects Ubuntu 12.04 beta 2. With all the other window controls on the left by default, the left-scrollbar should not be that unusual a choice. Since finding the left scrollbar is so difficult (scroll length is set to 2048, so the invisible red indicator is pretty small), a

[Bug 495131] Re: update-manager cannot find space on /tmp ramdisk

2011-09-10 Thread Ubfan
I just confirmed that this is still a problem in 10.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495131 Title: update-manager cannot find space on /tmp ramdisk To manage notifications about

[Bug 495131] Re: update-manager cannot find space on /tmp ramdisk

2011-08-26 Thread Ubfan
This is still an issue with 10.04 and 11.04. Probably 10.10 too, but I'll have to wait until some more updates are available to test. Suggested fix: Use the size= option in the fstab line, which the mount command will report. Use the amount of free space in ram. Use the needed download size.

[Bug 495131] Re: update-manager cannot find space on /tmp ramdisk

2011-08-27 Thread Ubfan
Edit your /etc/fstab to add a line putting /tmp into a ramfs device. See the below excerpt of fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier # for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name #

[Bug 879120] [NEW] 11.10 shutdown delay of 1 min when using the open source Broadcom firmware

2011-10-20 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: The Broadcom 4311/12 wireless chips require firmware when using the b43 driver. This firmware is available from Broadcom (which is put into /lib/firmware/b43) or as open source (which is put into /lib/firmware/b43-open). Either firmware works, but when the proprietary

[Bug 879120] Re: 11.10 shutdown delay of 1 min when using the open source Broadcom firmware

2011-10-20 Thread Ubfan
The open source firmware is available in packages firmware-b43-installer and firmware-b43-lpphy-installer. It is not certain that the system with the problem had used those packages, however. The firmware may have been compiled directly, or copied from another system. -- You received this bug

[Bug 762203] Re: Computer is not turned off at shutdown

2011-05-23 Thread Ubfan
Further testing with a fresh Maverick install to an 8G stick and updated, displayed the improper shutdown problem -- it's as if the usb gets turned off before the filesystem is dismounted, leaving it dirty and in need of checking next boot. Looks like Lucid is the last release that worked

[Bug 762203] Re: Computer is not turned off at shutdown

2011-05-18 Thread Ubfan
Running off a 4G usb stick, I get a hang at shutdown (Checking for unattended upgrades) on an MSI 135 (Micro Star International) netbook, but not on an Compaq Presario V3000 laptop. First time I have seen such a problem, going back to Jaunty. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2010-11-01 Thread Ubfan
This problem goes back to grub1, and grub 2 did not fix it entirely. UUIDs helped, but they are not used for every disk reference. I use the normal desktop gui install, from a 2G live usb, to a 4G usb target on a standard Windows laptop, The created grub.cfg still has wrong device references

[Bug 608508] Re: usb stick will not stay unmounted with safely remove

2010-10-22 Thread Ubfan
Maverick remounts the Safely removed usb device before it can be pulled out ( 1/2 sec) at the first remove. The second remove attempt works properly on the usb device. Fully patched 32 bit Maverick to 20-Oct-2010, Running Linux Maverick 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 UTC

[Bug 655111] Re: BCM4312 not supported by Additional drivers. B43 is proposed, fails w/o useful message, Not supported low-power chip

2010-10-23 Thread Ubfan
Has anyone tried the b43-open firmware with this LP chip? http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 claims it's partially supported: 14e4:4315partially supported 2.6.33 and later (PIO mode)BCM4312 b/gLP b43/wl I just copy in a b43-open directory to /lib/firmware with the 3

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2010-10-19 Thread Ubfan
Maverick usb install media, whether created from Lucid or Maverick will still create a non-booting target usb device (thumbdrive or usb hdd) because the wrong device (sdc instead of sdb) is used. To recap, at install time, the Windows internal hard disk gets sda, the boot media gets sdb, and

[Bug 70317] Re: constant kernel errors about unknown multimedia keys

2010-10-20 Thread Ubfan
Running Maverick Linux Maverick 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux on an Compaq Presario v3000 lsptop, I saw this message in my dmesg output: [ 12.793811] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver [ 34.742043] atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2010-11-03 Thread Ubfan
Certainly not the case with me. The root=/dev/sdc1 on the linux line overrides whatever the search UUID did. I just did a fresh install from a 2G usb stick created on a Maverick system with the normal desktop iso, to a 4G new pqi stick. I captured the grub.cfg (bad), fstab (OK), and the

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2010-11-04 Thread Ubfan
I do agree that if the UUID is used on the linux line, the set root= line to the wrong hd2 will not stop the boot. I have just done 4 quick Maverick USB installs, and I think I recall that not all have had the sdc1 on the linux line. The install to a USB hard disk seemed to only have the set

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2010-11-05 Thread Ubfan
No, I have never edited any default files to produce the sdc on the linux line. The problem is created by a pretty standard install, just doing a manual partition because I am afraid if I answer yes to use the whole disk the windows internal disk would be wiped out. -- Grub Installer gets

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2010-11-06 Thread Ubfan
I found the original grub.cfg file from a USB hard disk install. It does use UUIDs on the linux line, just the hdx references are wrong. This probably would have booted Maverick successfully, but maybe not Windows, which does the search with UUID, but used the bad hd1 for the drvemap. The

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2010-11-06 Thread Ubfan
We both agree the second grub file will boot linux. I doubt it will boot windows, but don't care. Look at the LINUX line from first grub.cfg file from a 4G stick install, four lines cut out below: set root='(hd2,msdos1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 0ddfb60a-4791-45c9-85ec-c13c42c459af

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2010-11-07 Thread Ubfan
Yes, I can recreate it. I'll run a couple of Maverick installs tonight to some 4G sticks. I'll use a Maverick created installer, and capture the grub.cfg, and fstab. If I can, I'll grab the log files off the install media too. -- Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2010-11-07 Thread Ubfan
Recreated the problem of the sdc appearing on the linux lines in grub.cfg on an install to a 4G Patriot xmini usb stick. fstab was OK with the UUID used for /, sdc1 only appearing in a comment. I did copy the /var/log files off the install media in case they might be of interest. Install

[Bug 631494] Re: [Maverick béta ] Invisib le mouse

2010-11-07 Thread Ubfan
Sometimes after the screensaver, the mouse pointer becomes invisible on a current to 11/6 Maverick 10.10 system. I am running the Nvidia graphics 6150, without the proprietary drivers. I don't recall seeing this problem in any earlier release. The hardware did not have problems with the 10.04

[Bug 615938] Re: mousepointer invisible, but seems to be there

2010-11-07 Thread Ubfan
Sometimes after the screensaver, the mouse pointer becomes invisible on a current to 11/6 Maverick 10.10 system. I am running the Nvidia graphics 6150, without the proprietary drivers. I don't recall seeing this problem in any earlier release. The hardware did not have problems with the 10.04

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2010-11-08 Thread Ubfan
Correct. It just occurred to me that a significant difference between the two installs is that the usb flash sticks only have one partition. I have always had at least two partitions on a hard disk (one for swap, plus the install partition, plus any others). -- Grub Installer gets devices

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2010-11-08 Thread Ubfan
grub edited just the sdc to sdb to boot, no other changes made. Copied fstab and grub.cfg to desktop sudo update-grub The fstab was unchanged (OK), and the grub.cfg had the UUIDs used instead of the sdc devices, and the hd2 s were changed to hd1 s., correcting all the problems. diff below from

[Bug 608508] Re: usb stick will not stay unmounted with safely remove

2010-11-16 Thread Ubfan
The remount does not occur until after the first time update-manager is run on a new Maverick install. -- usb stick will not stay unmounted with safely remove https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/608508 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 615938] Re: mousepointer invisible, but seems to be there

2011-01-26 Thread Ubfan
Problem solved by using the Nvidia drivers. I would prefer to use the open drivers however, since I boot off a USB thumbdrive, and now I cannot successfully boot on a machine without Nvidia chips. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 156477] Re: Installer fails if windows on another partition is hibernated

2011-02-15 Thread Ubfan
The Maverick installer was a 2G SD card, created on a fully patched Lucid system on Nov 15, 2010. The workaround to the error was to type F6 early on, which seemed to skip some checking and got me to the language selection screen, from which I installed Maverick to a 4G stick. The error was

[Bug 156477] Re: Installer fails if windows on another partition is hibernated

2011-02-14 Thread Ubfan
The Maverick (10.10) live usb media (32 bit desktop) displayed this problem, refusing to get past a hibernated embedded windows which did not affect previous installations back to Intrepid. I believe the hibernated Windows partition was for a quick start of media player for DVDs or CDs but has

[Bug 712292] [NEW] update-manager progress bar windows for download and applying changes sometimes do not appear.

2011-02-02 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager Ubuntu 10.10 update-manager can get into a state which will not show theUbuntu 10.10 update-manager can get into a state which will not show the progress windows for downloading, or for applying changes. The update completes and is

[Bug 712292] Re: update-manager progress bar windows for download and applying changes sometimes do not appear.

2011-02-02 Thread Ubfan
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/712292 Title: update-manager progress bar windows for download and applying changes sometimes do not appear. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 510318] Re: Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings! (About Ubuntu) page contains encoding error

2010-02-10 Thread Ubfan
Navigation box appears to have a sporadic problem. There is another page with this problem which causes a pink error box at the top of the page: How Can I Upgrade to the latest version of Ubuntu? The error is not consistent -- it's either: 1)Not present (rare). 2)line 467 col 46 Encoding error

[Bug 520194] [NEW] apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in __fprintf_chk()

2010-02-10 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apt Manual purge of an old set of kernel files did not totally clean out the /lib/modules/2.6.32-10-generic directory, leaving file modules.builtin.bin. Noticed that a previous kernel ...9 removal left the same file and directory. sudo apt-get purge

[Bug 520194] Re: apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in __fprintf_chk()

2010-02-10 Thread Ubfan
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39037117/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: Disassembly.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39037118/Disassembly.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39037119/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 520207] [NEW] Kernel update to ...32-12 fails because /lib/udev/firmware.sh does not exist

2010-02-10 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.32-12-generic Update-manager run Feb 10 had a problem with updating the kernel to 32-12. A window claimed that dpkg --configure -a would be run, but that failed too. Manual run below. Wrong file name for firmware.sh appears to be the

[Bug 367766] Re: live USB disk not bootable

2010-02-10 Thread Ubfan
As I recall, the stick did not work on a second laptop either. The problem was fixed in Jaunty, since a create startup usb command succeeded with a Karmic iso. I still have an Intrepid installation which I can use to see if it can successfully create a Karmic usb if that is of interest. I'm

[Bug 463920] Re: evolution crashes when composing a message pressing space

2010-02-11 Thread Ubfan
Karmic/AMD64 after adding the spell, ispell, American dict packages, evolution exhibits the crash in composing when a word break is first typed. Removing the spelling packages is a workaround for the problem. Maybe turning off spell checking as you type will also workaround the problem. This has

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB

2010-05-09 Thread Ubfan
Lucid (10.04) has fixed the bad device.map (got rid of it), fixed the comments mentioning devices on the other oses, and generally has rationalized the hd0 is sda, hd1 is sdb. Unfortunately, the /etc/fstab file now puts / on /dev/sdcx instead of /dev/sdbx (or UUID as in Karmic). Since there is

[Bug 361461] Re: (Jaunty) Wicd No Longer Allows Me To Connect

2010-06-01 Thread Ubfan
Another possibility is that your access point has run out of ip address leases. I upped the number from 3 to 10 and things started working again. -- (Jaunty) Wicd No Longer Allows Me To Connect https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361461 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 577508] Re: gui crashes after screensaver changed (lucid)

2010-05-19 Thread Ubfan
Burned a live Lucid CD and booted up the HP Pavilion a210n. It experienced the GL crash/hang too with the antSpotlight, so I guess the upgrade was not an issue. I did find a warning at the top of one text screen which might be of interest: (Process:256): GLibWARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed

[Bug 463920] Re: evolution crashes when composing a message pressing space

2010-05-19 Thread Ubfan
32 bit Lucid is OK for me. The spell packages no longer kill composition. -- evolution crashes when composing a message pressing space https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463920 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 120829] Re: /dev/sda3 is mounted despite the 'noauto' option in fstab

2010-05-19 Thread Ubfan
I've been dancing around this problem for the last few releases too. My workaround is to use /mnt instead of /media in fstab and then Gnome will obey the noauto. Ideally, I would still get these noauto partitions listed in Places/Other Removable Media menu so I could choose to mount them with

[Bug 520194] Re: apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in __fprintf_chk()

2010-03-04 Thread Ubfan
The crash apparently happened on the 32-9 manual remove too. The 32-9 and 32-10 removals were the only ones I have seen with the error. I do not even see the modules.buildin.bin in my 9.10 system. At some point, I lost the graphics on the Lucid alpha, so I deleted it. The Lucid installation

[Bug 520738] Re: nm-applet freezes xorg/system

2010-02-17 Thread Ubfan
I use only released kernels, and see sporadic mouse freezeups when the network-manager is doing something. Yesterday, my Jaunty system froze when accessing the nm menu. I have wireless turned off with a manual switch, but use network-manger for my usb mobile/modem connection. I had no other

[Bug 520738] Re: nm-applet freezes xorg/system

2010-02-11 Thread Ubfan
I have seen my AMD/64 i386 9.10 system mouse (touchpad) freeze when I move it when a network-manager popup message is displaying. If I have another window open, I can still shift focus with Alt Tab, then the mouse works again. -- nm-applet freezes xorg/system

[Bug 520194] Re: apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in __fprintf_chk()

2010-02-12 Thread Ubfan
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 519855 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/519855 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 519855 update-initramfs fails: ./lib/udev/firmware.sh does not exist -- apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in __fprintf_chk()

[Bug 520194] Re: apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in __fprintf_chk()

2010-02-13 Thread Ubfan
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 519855 update-initramfs fails: ./lib/udev/firmware.sh does not exist -- apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in __fprintf_chk() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/520194 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 367766] Re: live USB disk not bootable

2010-02-20 Thread Ubfan
I just patched my Intrepid system to date Feb 20, 2010, and successfully created a Karmic startup usb stick. The problem appears to have been fixed. -- live USB disk not bootable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367766 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 367766] Re: live USB disk not bootable

2010-02-20 Thread Ubfan
I just patched my Intrepid system to date Feb 20, 2010, and successfully created a Karmic startup usb stick. The problem appears to have been fixed. -- live USB disk not bootable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367766 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 510318] Re: Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings! (About Ubuntu) page contains encoding error

2010-02-03 Thread Ubfan
The error appears on my Lucid system, AMD64 alternates between the below two errors(in a pink box at top of page). This page contains the following errors: error on line 448 at column 737: AttValue: or ' expected Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error. or This page contains

[Bug 510318] Re: Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings! (About Ubuntu) page contains encoding error

2010-02-03 Thread Ubfan
My locale is C, by the way, fully patched on Feb 1. $ locale LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=C LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=C LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=C LC_IDENTIFICATION=C LC_ALL= -- Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings! (About Ubuntu) page

[Bug 520194] Re: apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in __fprintf_chk()

2010-03-10 Thread Ubfan
Here's another incomplete purge of kernel files, which did not cause a crash (different file this time, modules.seriomap). This installation was on a hard disk, in a usb 2.0 enclosure. Intrepid patched to date March 10, 2010 showed the manual kernel cleanup problem. Same file, modules.seriomap

[Bug 577508] Re: gui crashes after screensaver changed (lucid)

2010-05-11 Thread Ubfan
Upgraded from 8.04 to 10.04, and had the screensaver crash when using GL screensavers. A quick click before the preview screensaver runs to select a non GL screensaver stopped the crashes. The crash may be related to the bonobo-activation server crash because of a missing bonono socket in /tmp,

[Bug 361461] Re: (Jaunty) Wicd No Longer Allows Me To Connect

2010-05-12 Thread Ubfan
I just saw the disassociation by local choice (reason 3) on Karmic Jaunty USB based systems which previously worked fine. I'm using the b43 Broadcom open driver and the opensource Broadcom firmware. I think this is a hardware problem, since iwlist scan will show the two available aps with

[Bug 577508] Re: gui crashes after screensaver changed (lucid)

2010-05-12 Thread Ubfan
-activation-server (ubfan-2327): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-cU04aUTdF2: Connection refused May 12 20:08:23 dtop kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. May 12 20:08:23 dtop rsyslogd: [origin software=rsyslogd swVersion=4.2.0 x-pid=617 x-info=http

[Bug 506342] Re: apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in __fprintf_chk()

2010-05-14 Thread Ubfan
I mount my /var/log on a ramfs (since I run off a 4G thumbdrive), and worked around the problem by creating any necessary directories in rc.local. I've also created in rc.local a link from /var/cache/apt to a /tmp/debs (with /tmp mounted as tmpfs) and create the /archives/partial directory

[Bug 463920] Re: evolution crashes when composing a message pressing space

2012-11-11 Thread Ubfan
** Changed in: enchant (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463920 Title: evolution crashes when composing a message pressing space To manage

[Bug 970040] Re: When set to autohide, launcher often won't show

2012-11-13 Thread Ubfan
@om26er -- I'm not running Unit 3D. Nvidia 304.60 fixed the problem for me, but it takes 2 sec for the launch bar to appear -- too slow for me, so I leave it visible now. Driver 304.63 worked too, after some initial problem which had the GUI login stuck in a loop -- looked like some old .X*

[Bug 1170150] Re: vmlinuz/initrd.img symlinks do not point to signed versions on kernel updates of secure boot UEFI machines

2013-09-22 Thread Ubfan
Downloaded the Sept 20 desktop 64 bit ISO, and on a Secure Boot UEFI laptop running 13.04, created USB install media, and installed to another USB set up with gpt and an EFI partition. Booting the target USB worked in secure mode, with the signed kernel being used, but the symlink for the kernel

[Bug 1229488] [NEW] 13.10 USB to USB Install on UEFI Secure Boot Machine Left Host Unbootable

2013-09-23 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: Downloaded Sept. 20 daily build of 13.10, 64 bit, desktop ISO, md5sum checked it, used create startup disk on 13.04 secure boot host to make USB live media, rebooted from it, and successfully installed 13.10 to another USB. Target USB had gpt partitioning, had an EFI

[Bug 1229488] Re: 13.10 USB to USB Install on UEFI Secure Boot Machine Left Host Unbootable

2013-09-24 Thread Ubfan
Oops, just checked the USB target again after fixing the host machine and found that it had nothing in its EFI partition, so It would not boot either. I thought that specifying the explicit paritition /dev/sdc1 (vs the device /dev/sdc) would work for removable media bootlaoder locations on an EFI

[Bug 1091464] Re: Unable to chainload Windows 8 with Secure Boot enabled

2013-11-15 Thread Ubfan
On a just updated 13.10 (Nov 15) getting shim-signed 1.5 and a new signed grubx64.efi 2.00..-19 I see no change in the error. The UnknownMessage (hex 12) or decimal 18 is indeed an invalid subtype for the messaging type (last valid subtype is decimal 15), so looks like leftover garbage in the

[Bug 840146] Re: colord crashed with SIGABRT in raise()

2013-04-09 Thread Ubfan
Happens regularly on 12.04, colord0.1.16-2ubuntu0.1, i386, nonfree=nvidia, /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/colord/colord, kernel 3.2.0-39.62-generic-pae 3.2.39, signal =6. fully updated system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1086289] Re: Wrong grub-efi resolution during OS boot menu selection

2013-05-01 Thread Ubfan
I have seen the reduced grub resolution, but only after an EFI boot failure and its subsequent fallback to the /Boot/bootx64.efi. My machine is a Toshiba Satellite S855, and it boots off USB with a correctly set up ESP at full resolution, but when I select the hard disk's ubuntu choice, I got

[Bug 1170150] [NEW] vmlinuz/initrd.img symlinks do not point to signed versions on kernel updates of secure boot UEFI machines

2013-04-17 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: Kernel updates on a UEFI pc with secure boot enabled have the vmlinuz and initrd.img symlinks updated, but they point to the unsigned versions of the kernel instead of the signed ones. The pc was set up with secure boot on, has never been booted with secure boot off, and no

[Bug 1170150] Re: vmlinuz/initrd.img symlinks do not point to signed versions on kernel updates of secure boot UEFI machines

2013-04-18 Thread Ubfan
Ubuntu 12.10, updated several times, getting kernels ...17, ...26, and ...27. The symlinks in / were examined with ls -l and the output indicated that the link was to the /boot/vmlinuz-generic file, NOT the /boot/vmlinuz...-generic.efi.signed file. Applying the sbattach command to the

[Bug 1170150] Re: vmlinuz/initrd.img symlinks do not point to signed versions on kernel updates of secure boot UEFI machines

2013-04-19 Thread Ubfan
Bug 1091464 affects me (grub unable to chainload Windows), so as a workaround, I have a separate ESP on a USB stick. The stick boots Ubuntu 12.10 off the hard disk, and the stick is not mounted in the filesystem. I had been updating the stick's EFI/ubuntu/grub.cfg as each kernel update

[Bug 1090829] Re: grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error

2013-04-23 Thread Ubfan
@yannubuntu re: #34: Yes, I too see the efi firmware path ubuntu/grubx64.efi when it should be ...shim.efi . Looks like grub- install defaulted to that when the path test for shim failed. I haven't done much except get rid of the usb boot for Ubuntu -- I was surprised the F12/select HDD/select

[Bug 1173457] [NEW] Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop 64 bit install uses wrong ESP for secure boot laptop

2013-04-26 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: On a secure boot pc (secure boot enabled, Ubuntu Desktop 12.10 64bit installed with Win 8), installing from live media Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit desktop to a target thumbdrive (pre partitioned with gpt, and a bootable FAT32 partition 1 of 250M labeled EFI) properly identifies

[Bug 1159016] Re: 12.10 64bit live-USB successfully boots, but without persistence on UEFI pc

2013-04-28 Thread Ubfan
Thanks Fred. Yes the fix is simple enough, add the word persistent to the /boot/grub/grub.cfg vmlinuz kernel lines. This bug still affects 13.04 also. I find persistence useful for setting up my install media with additional wireless/ethernet packages which may be needed on some machines.

[Bug 1091464] Re: Unable to chainload Windows 8 with Secure Boot enabled

2013-03-29 Thread Ubfan
I have the same error on a Toshiba Satellite S855 S5378 with Windows 8 preinstalled. My workaround is to use a (full install) thumbdrive to boot Ubuntu 12.10 on the hard disk, and to pull the thumbdrive to boot windows -- all in secure mode. Windows boots attempted from the thumbdrive, give the

[Bug 1091464] Re: Unable to chainload Windows 8 with Secure Boot enabled

2013-05-26 Thread Ubfan
A second workaround, more convienent than the USB boot is to invoke the EFI device select menu, select HDD, then select ubuntu or Windows (both of which work). The ubuntu selection starts grub, but from grub, the Windows boot still fails with the above chainloader error. With the number of

[Bug 1098959] Re: 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth Mouse Moves

2013-01-17 Thread Ubfan
Running system is a 4G USB, booted with bluetooth off, no battery indicator displayed, killed the upowerd process, then turned bluetooth on, then turned on the mouse, which immediately worked, resulting in the following dmesg messages: [ 1542.188059] usb 2-4: new full-speed USB device number

[Bug 1098959] Re: 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth Mouse Moves

2013-01-19 Thread Ubfan
Cycling mouse and/or bluetooth never crashes the upowerd for me. I do get some null pointer stack dump from the bluetoothd at some point. Closest complaint was : quanta4g kernel: [ 211.852064] power_supply hid-00:60:D1:00:C3:15-battery: driver failed to report `capacity' property: 4294967291

[Bug 1098959] Re: 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth Mouse Moves

2013-01-21 Thread Ubfan
** Also affects: gnome-power Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1098959 Title: 12.10 Bluetooth Battery Indicator Interferes with Bluetooth

[Bug 1159016] [NEW] 12.10 64bit live-USB successfully boots, but without persistence on UEFI pc

2013-03-22 Thread Ubfan
Public bug reported: The 64but 12.10 2G live USB was set up on a 32bit 12.04.1 non-UEFI host with 1G persistence. The USB boots and persistence works on the non-UEFI host. The USB boots in Secure boot mode but without persistence on a UEFI host. The /proc/cmdline on the running live media shows

[Bug 1090829] Re: grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error

2013-03-24 Thread Ubfan
How I corrupted the ubuntu directory: On a Toshiba Satellite S855 with Windows 8 preinstalled and Secure boot enabled, successfully installed 12.10 64b to a 4G stick, without making a efi partition on it. This created a good EFI/ubuntu directory on the hard disk, but left the EFI/Boot

[Bug 1090829] Re: grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error

2013-03-24 Thread Ubfan
@yannbuntu: My issue is the same as yours: the underlying bad EFI/ubuntu directory. I think I can narrow the cause to grub-efi itself: 1) I have never booted the pc with Secure boot disabled. 2) I have never run any third party tools like your boot-repair. 3) I have never added, changed or

[Bug 1090829] Re: grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error

2013-03-26 Thread Ubfan
I see lots of Input/Output errors when accessing the EFI/ubuntu directory, and see a (bogus?) read only filesystem message in dmesg: dmesg lines (probably caused by the ls command): FAT-fs (sda2); error, fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0) FAT-fs (sda2): Filesystem has been set read

Re: [Bug 1090829] Re: grub-efi fails to install with Input/output error

2013-03-26 Thread Ubfan
@yannubuntu: Sorry, bug 1159016 had me running non-persistent on my live media. At the time I didn't remember to capture any log files on another usb. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 384633] Re: Grub Installer uses device name instead of UUID, leading to unbootable system

2012-05-07 Thread Ubfan
The problem is still present with the 12.04 release. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384633 Title: Grub Installer uses device name instead of UUID, leading to unbootable system To

[Bug 1091464] Re: Unable to chainload Windows 8 with Secure Boot enabled

2014-01-05 Thread Ubfan
A forums question http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2197141 indicated that the bug could be made to go away in secure boot by putting the os I wanted to boot on on the top of the list of bootable drives. Now my UEFI Settings for devices does NOT contain OSes, just devices. When I select

[Bug 876734] Re: gnome-terminal scroll position indicator invisible when left scroll is selected

2013-12-05 Thread Ubfan
** Description changed: - Under Unity and Unity-2D, selecting left scroll for a gnome-terminal - scroll bar position results in the little red bar, indicating where the - scroll elevator will appear , being invisible, making it difficult to - find, since random clicks must be applied along the

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